Detachable front for plug-tobacco boxes



No.'6l3,256. Patented Nov. I, I898. A. M. D OWNING.

DETACHABLE FRONT FOB PLUG TOBACCU BOXES.

A lietion filed Jan. 6, 1888.) (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARNOLD M; DOVVNING, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

DETACHABLE FRONT FOR PLUG-TOBACCO BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,256, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed January 6 1 8 9 8.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARNOLD M. DOWNING, of Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Fronts for Plug- Tobacco Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs,formin g a part thereof.

My invention relates to detachable lids for plug-tobacco boxes; and it consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

This invention is designed more particularly as an improvement over a similar device heretofore patented by me on February 22, 1898, No. 599,552, the special object in the present improvement being to produce an equally-effective device of simpler and cheaper construction and which may be used in connection with suitably-sized boxes constructed of boards of varying thickness.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe itwith reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a plug-tobacco box and a transparent door united to the same by my improved securing devices. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the same as viewed toward the door. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, on an enlarged scale, of the door and the adjacent part of the box. Fig. 4 represents a perspectiy e View of one of my improved securing devices.

Referring to the drawings, where similar reference-numerals designate corresponding parts, 1 designates a plug-tobacco box of the usual or any preferred construction, and 2 designatesa transparent door therefor, which is adapted to cover the open end of the box, and thereby protect the contents from dust and at the same time expose said contents to the public. This door is of the same size and configuration as the box, has upon its inner side the recess a, and is rabbeted at all four margins at its inner side, so as to form the annular flange 3, which projects snugly into the box, and thereby largely relieves the securing devices of the Weight of the door when the latter is closed.

The securing device for the free edge of the configuration.

Serial No. 665,756. (No model.)

door comprises an arm or disk 4, provided with a prong or point 5, and a stem 6, journaled in and carrying the pronged arm or disk at its inner side and formed with a head or thumb piece 7 at its outer side. Under the proper manipulation of said head or thumb piece the prong'or point 5 bites into the wood of the box, or, in other words, is embedded therein, and thus secures the door in its closed position. By reversing this manipulation it is disengaged therefrom and the door is free to open.

The devices for securing the hinged edge of the door to the box are preferably two in number, and being duplicates a description of one will suffice for both. This device comprises what I shall hereinafter term a combined hinge and clamp and comprises two members hinged together. One of these members, that which I term the clamp member, is of hook form, consisting of parallel arms 8 and9, the former being shorter than the lat ter and connected to it by the cross-piece 10 at a short distance from its front end, such distance being less than the thickness of the door by preference. A clamping screw 11 has transverse portions 1) and is carried centrally by the short arm 8 and provided with a head of the usual or any preferred style which will occupy as small a space as possi= ble, and a plate or member 12, hinged, as shown at 13, to the front end of the arm 9. Thearms 9 and 11, being the exposed parts of the device, are preferably of ornamental A pair of clamps of this character are secured upon the box at the hinged end of the door, the hooks being fitted upon the vertical edge of the box, so that the arms 8 and 9 shall embrace its inner and outer sides'and the cross-piece 10 shall bear at its front edge, so as to limit its longitudinal movement. It is immaterial whether the arms 8 and 9 fit the edge of the box snugly, because the set or clamping screws under the proper firmly and reliably against the inner side of the box, between its contents and the door. The hinge edge of the door at corresponding points is preferably formed with recesses in which the cross-piece 10 may rest, as shown in Fig. 3, said recesses being of sufficient depth to leave intact at these points a thickmanipulation may be caused to impingeness suflicient to snugly fill the space between said cross-piece and the hinge-plate 12, which latter is secured to the face of the door, as shown, or in any other suitable manner. The door is recessed in order that the set-screw may be brought as close to its side as possible, so as to not interfere with the packing of the usual quantity of tobacco in the box. The location of the set-screw relative to the contents of the box may be observed most clearly in Fig. 3, the part b of said screw working in the recess a of the door.

From the above description it is obvious, by reason of the hooks being of size to receive wood of the greatest thickness used in the construction of these boxes, together with the adjusting devices or the screws, that the door may be easily and quickly secured upon or removed from any plug-tobacco box on the market. It is also obvious that slight changes may be made in the form, proportion, or detail construction of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention,

and that I have produced securing devices which are cheaper, just as reliable, and of more universal application than the construction embodied in my aforesaid application.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters ARNOLD M. DOXVNING.

Witnesses:

G. Y. THORPE, M. R. REMLEY. 

